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The purpose of this chapter is to situate Álvaro Cunqueiro’s play O incerto señor don Hamlet (1958) within the modes of signification of the modern stage. As a corollary, the study also situates Cunqueiro’s work in a specific ideological unconscious—a romantic and petty-bourgeois substratum from which stem Cunqueiro’s aesthetic, anthropological, and historical views. This work of contextualization should not be confused with the empiricist or positivist tendency to create a context—whether historical, cultural, biographical or otherwise—as an explanatory supplement to the text. Contextualization is carried out here, instead, through a symptomatic analysis of Don Hamlet that suggests the capillary functioning of an unconscious that is present, as it were, in every word.
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Caamaño, J. (2017). Stage and History in O incerto señor don Hamlet . In: Sampedro Vizcaya, B., Losada Montero, J. (eds) Rerouting Galician Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65729-5_13
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